LEADER 04231nam 22006855 450 001 9910299796303321 005 20230814221905.0 010 $a3-319-71422-8 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-71422-6 035 $a(CKB)4100000002892130 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-71422-6 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5387454 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5590743 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5590743 035 $a(OCoLC)1029061005 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000002892130 100 $a20180313d2018 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aArtistic Utopias of Revolt $eClaremont Road, Reclaim the Streets, and the City of Sol /$fby Julia Ramírez Blanco 205 $a1st ed. 2018. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2018. 215 $a1 online resource (XVI, 187 p. 49 illus., 43 illus. in color.) 225 1 $aPalgrave Studies in Utopianism 311 $a3-319-71421-X 327 $a1. Introduction: Art as Language, Utopia as Discourse -- 2. Activism as a Place: The British Anti-Roads Movement and the Squatted Street of Claremont Road -- 3. The Reclaim the Streets Protest Parties in London -- 4. Interlude: The Globalization of the Aesthetics of Protest -- 5. Disobedience as an Urban Form: The Acampadasol in Madrid -- 6. Notes Towards a Conclusion -- Chronology of Events -- Glossary -- Index. 330 $aThis book analyses the aesthetic and utopian dimensions of various activist social movements in Western Europe since 1989. Through a series of case studies, it demonstrates how dreams of a better society have manifested themselves in contexts of political confrontation, and how artistic forms have provided a language to express the collective desire for social change. The study begins with the 1993 occupation of Claremont Road in east London, an attempt to prevent the demolition of homes to make room for a new motorway. In a squatted row of houses, all available space was transformed and filled with elements that were both aesthetic and defensive ? so when the authorities arrived to evict the protestors, sculptures were turned into barricades. At the end of the decade, this kind of performative celebration merged with the practices of the antiglobalisation movement, where activists staged spectacular parallel events alongside the global elite?s international meetings. As this book shows, social movements try to erase the distance that separates reality and political desire, turning ordinary people into creators of utopias. Squatted houses, carnivalesque street parties, counter-summits, and camps in central squares, all create a physical place of these utopian visions. 410 0$aPalgrave Studies in Utopianism 606 $aEurope?History?1492- 606 $aHistory, Modern 606 $aCities and towns?History 606 $aWorld politics 606 $aCivilization?History 606 $aHistory of Modern Europe$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/717080 606 $aModern History$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/713000 606 $aUrban History$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/727000 606 $aPolitical History$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/911080 606 $aCultural History$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/723000 615 0$aEurope?History?1492-. 615 0$aHistory, Modern. 615 0$aCities and towns?History. 615 0$aWorld politics. 615 0$aCivilization?History. 615 14$aHistory of Modern Europe. 615 24$aModern History. 615 24$aUrban History. 615 24$aPolitical History. 615 24$aCultural History. 676 $a940.903 700 $aRamírez Blanco$b Julia$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01063945 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910299796303321 996 $aArtistic Utopias of Revolt$92535435 997 $aUNINA